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We inhabit, or believe ourselves to inhabit, a continuous present - an unbroken stream of immediate experience that flows, moment by moment, from an irrecoverable past toward an unknowable future. This conviction is so deeply embedded in the structure of ordinary consciousness that it functions less as a belief than…

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